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词汇 cremate
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Definition of cremate in English:

cremate

verb krɪˈmeɪt
  • Dispose of (a dead person's body) by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.

    (常指葬礼后)火化(尸体)

    she had refused to have her husband cremated
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another possibility is to remove filled teeth from dead people before bodies are cremated.
    • The dead usually are cremated after an elaborate procession.
    • Raising a monument to the memory of the deceased at the place where his dead body is cremated is taboo.
    • He knew that his people wouldn't carry out that wish because it's not customary within general Maori protocol to cremate the dead.
    • They were mostly Indian cultural ceremonies, but there were also several Europeans cremated on funeral pyres.
    • Requiem Mass took place the following day and he was cremated at a private ceremony.
    • In the Hindu tradition, the dead are cremated, preferably on the banks of a river.
    • I do believe that when a body is cremated or buried, it is just that - a body.
    • His funeral took place in Plymouth and his body was cremated.
    • Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikhs cremate their dead.
    • The wrong woman's body was cremated after an identification mix-up by a funeral parlour.
    • By Friday evening, 45 bodies had been cremated in mass ceremonies.
    • For now though, the city still buries and cremates its dead as it has done for the last century.
    • Tibetans cremate their dead or bury them in a sky funeral, considered the only way to ensure rebirth.
    • According to Muslim traditions, a body must be cremated within 24 hours.
    • Some great teachers of the past told their students simply to cremate their body and dispose of it, because the body is not important.
    • On Wednesday, her body was cremated on a funeral pyre at a Buddhist temple, while her husband Josef watched silently.
    • Well, I have always talked about my body being cremated, and then having the ashes dispersed on a park or a garden.
    • It was excavated in the 1940s, but the bodies had been cremated and not buried.
    • They cremated their dead and placed urns of their ashes in flat graves in cemeteries.
    Synonyms
    burn, burn up, reduce to ashes, consume by fire, carbonize

Derivatives

  • cremator

  • noun
    • But they have promised they will take ‘public taste’ into account before any decision is made to redirect the hot air from the cremators into the chapel.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not many people know this, but most modern-day cremators are about 30 inches wide, and new furnaces are now being built around 10 inches wider.
      • The force created by the explosion can be so sudden that the energy cannot escape through the flue passages connected to the cremators and cause damage to the brickwork lining it.
      • The product of cremation is not ashes in the sense of a powder, but fragments of bone, whose size is determined by the temperature of the cremator or pyre.

Origin

Late 19th century (as cremation): from Latin cremare 'burn'.

Rhymes

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Definition of cremate in US English:

cremate

verb
[with object]
  • 1Dispose of (a dead person's body) by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.

    (常指葬礼后)火化(尸体)

    she had refused to have her husband cremated
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tibetans cremate their dead or bury them in a sky funeral, considered the only way to ensure rebirth.
    • I do believe that when a body is cremated or buried, it is just that - a body.
    • Raising a monument to the memory of the deceased at the place where his dead body is cremated is taboo.
    • The wrong woman's body was cremated after an identification mix-up by a funeral parlour.
    • Requiem Mass took place the following day and he was cremated at a private ceremony.
    • He knew that his people wouldn't carry out that wish because it's not customary within general Maori protocol to cremate the dead.
    • Well, I have always talked about my body being cremated, and then having the ashes dispersed on a park or a garden.
    • His funeral took place in Plymouth and his body was cremated.
    • According to Muslim traditions, a body must be cremated within 24 hours.
    • It was excavated in the 1940s, but the bodies had been cremated and not buried.
    • For now though, the city still buries and cremates its dead as it has done for the last century.
    • By Friday evening, 45 bodies had been cremated in mass ceremonies.
    • On Wednesday, her body was cremated on a funeral pyre at a Buddhist temple, while her husband Josef watched silently.
    • Another possibility is to remove filled teeth from dead people before bodies are cremated.
    • They cremated their dead and placed urns of their ashes in flat graves in cemeteries.
    • They were mostly Indian cultural ceremonies, but there were also several Europeans cremated on funeral pyres.
    • Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikhs cremate their dead.
    • The dead usually are cremated after an elaborate procession.
    • Some great teachers of the past told their students simply to cremate their body and dispose of it, because the body is not important.
    • In the Hindu tradition, the dead are cremated, preferably on the banks of a river.
    Synonyms
    burn, burn up, reduce to ashes, consume by fire, carbonize
    1. 1.1informal Burn (something), typically food.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It either popped-up bread much under-done, or else cremated my quality loaf into charcoal.
      • Summer - a time for relaxing in the garden, cremating sausages on the barbecue and falling over from too much exertion in the beer cans department.
      • And the way to ensure that you ‘don't cremate it on the outside and it's red on the inside’ is to ensure you have the right heat and some patience.
      • Solemnly, I return to where Shawn and my mom are trying to decide if the food I've cremated is edible.
      • You see, all the passengers are off collecting wood to cremate the fuselage.
      • I cremate some form of pasta for dinner and, with Jess's help, manage not to burn the house to the ground.
      • We hid in the Garden of Remembrance, cremating a few cigarettes and swearing too much in the presence of the recently scattered, until an hour later, Roger arrived for his old man's funeral.

Origin

Late 19th century (as cremation): from Latin cremare ‘burn’.

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